The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear? — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
